The far-left stronghold of San Francisco, California, may no longer be a “bastion of progressive politics” after the upcoming mayoral election. Los Angeles Times The editor piece Thursday.
In an opinion piece titled “San Francisco has moved to the center. Can progressives still compete there?” Defne Karabatour described the Bay Area city's mayoral race as a “race against progressive politics.”
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“Is San Francisco, a city that is famously liberal, too far to the right to have a traditional progressive as mayor?” Mr Karabatour, a graduate of the Bay Area's University of California, Berkeley, began.
In the run-up to the presidential election, there is growing anger in California that progressive policies are being implemented in San Francisco, an “unfit for office.” Times The work continues.
Karabatour and Hannah Wiley, San Francisco LA Times A reporter covering the city stated that of the candidates in this election, “only one is running on a progressive platform.”
“And he's an underdog,” they concluded about San Francisco City Supervisor Chairman Aaron Peskin.
Karabatour posed a series of questions: “What does this mean? Is San Francisco no longer a bastion of progressive politics? What is progressiveism anyway?”
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Early August vote By commission San Francisco Chronicle The survey found that only 12% of voters named Peskin their first choice, putting him in fourth place behind incumbent Mayor London Breed, former interim Mayor Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie, the founder of an anti-poverty nonprofit group (all Democrats).
Face of the breed Accusation According to the San Francisco Standard, he broke with the city's conservative-leaning “progressive” wing after supporting two ballot measures aimed at strengthening policing and cracking down on drug use. Explained More moderate than progressive Chronicle.
The poll showed her with 28 percent of voters' support, followed by former interim mayor Mark Farrell with 20 percent. It is called “Surprisingly conservative for San Francisco.” POLITICO And he is the “most right-leaning” of the Democratic candidates. The New York Times.
Lurie came in third with 17 percent of voters' approval rating. Explained SF Standard describes him as a “moderate” who enjoys support from Republicans.
Citing the example of three school boards being dismissed over parental discontent over school closures, Karabatour wrote that San Francisco's “slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has upended the city's culture and shaken voters' trust in its leadership.”
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While the city closed schools for more than a year (longer than most in the country), the school board continued working on renaming one-third of the city's public schools. Critics say the existing names honor historical figures associated with slavery or the oppression of women, or who “severely diminished the opportunities for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for those among us.” LA Times The editor said.
She also Recall Former District Attorney Chesa Boudin was “criticized by opponents for her progressive policies on sentencing and incarceration.”
“This suggests that as much as candidates try to fit into or avoid neat boxes, few of them actually fit into them,” the article concluded. “Policies, not labels, will define San Francisco's political landscape for the next few years.”
